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Move to Defend: The Case against the Constitutional Amendments Seeking to Overturn Citizens United
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April 25
Featuring Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, FedEx Corporation; Andrew Morriss, D. Paul Jones Jr. & Charlene A. Jones Chairholder in Law and Professor of Business, University of Alabama; and James L. Smith, Cary M. Maguire Chair in Oil and Gas Management, Southern Methodist University; moderated by Jerry Taylor, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute.
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In the latest issue of Regulation magazine, M. Todd Henderson reviews last year’s brouhaha over health insurance and birth control. According to Henderson, lost in the firestorm about religion and feminism were larger lessons about health care policy and regulation. Also in this issue, Cato scholar Richard L. Gordon argues that new federal efforts to cut emissions are the result of longstanding legal and judicial mandates, not a sudden Obama administration push.
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Contrary to countless tales of its demise, U.S. manufacturing has always been strong relative to its own past and relative to other countries’ manufacturing sectors.
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More Bang for Your Buck
The Cato Institute tops a new measure of think tank performance in the United States, according to a recent report. Cato bested all other U.S. think tanks in the main category of “Aggregate Profile per Dollar Spent.” “I’m grateful to the Center for Global Development for showing that Cato gives its sponsors something I wish government gave more of to taxpayers: bang for the buck,” said Cato CEO John Allison.
March 27
Featuring Alan Bock, Author, Waiting to Inhale: The Politics of Medical Marijuana, with comments by Kevin Zeese, President, Common Sense for Drug Policy.
March 15
Featuring: Former representative Bob Walker (R-PA); Robert Poole, Reason Foundation; and Fred Abatemarco, Space.com.
March 13
Featuring Russell Crandall, Davidson College; James F. Mack, Bureau of International Narcotics & Law Enforcement Affairs, U.S. Department of State; Ian Vásquez, Cato Institute.
March 13
Featuring the author David DeRosa, Yale University School of Management, with comments by Andrew Berg, International Monetary Fund; Steve Hanke, Johns Hopkins University.
March 7
Featuring David E. Bernstein, Law Professor, George Mason University Law School, with comments by Mark V. Tushnet, Associate Dean, Georgetown University Law Center.
March 1
Featuring Judge Alex Kozinski, James Buchanan, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, and Roger Pilon.